“What do you want to be in ten years?” This is the question posed by a tutor in Jamie Coe’s Art Schooled. This was also one of the first questions posed to my Animation class in one of the first weeks of my degree at a small art school in Surrey. And like my illustrated compatriots, my classmates and I all wildly overestimated what we’d be up to. My (soon to be) housemate was going to write the English Family Guy. Another friend was going […]
My Triple Cannonball, and Why I Won’t Even Try for the Quadruple
#151: Yes Please by Amy Poehler: 1 star. #152: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut: 4 stars. #153-4: Death Note, Vol. 1 & 2 by Tsugumi Ohba: 5 stars. #155: Lucky Bastard by S.G. Browne: 2 stars. #156-7: Doughnut and When It’s a Jar by Tom Holt: 4 and 3 stars.
The utter depravity of humanity
Joseph K wakes up one day in the absence of his breakfast. Instead strange men are waiting in his apartment with the order for his arrest. They eat his breakfast, but they will not tell him the charges against him nor the details of his inexplicable arrest. Despite his arrest he is not incarcerated and he cannot get information on his hearings or court procedures. Instead he is expected to go to his office and carry on with his daily life as he awaits his […]
The Bureau of Supernatural Investigations – Wicked Fun Urban Fantasy
Picked this one up on a whim – disclosure – this review refers to the Audible version. Rip-roaring fun. Tales from the Bureau of Supernatural Investigations (BSI) . The guys that keep you from the things that go bump in the night. Our hero – “Kal Hakala” – is a Finn-American who is the lead of a team of BSI Agents. The “macguffin” of the tale is a murderer called “the organ donor” who kills people in a manner similar to butchering hogs […]